Talk:Orbital speed
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Heh, Anome, those edits worked out pretty well together considering we were both working pretty much blind to what the other was doing. :) -- John Owens
Oh, P.S. I'm not quite sure in my second equation, if that should be the mass of the other body, or the sum of their masses; I think it's really somewhere between the two, considering that radius for gravitational force will be from the other body, but radius of the orbit will be from the barycenter. I'll work this out soon. -- John Owens
- Note on my latest equation, the one for two similar masses: I suspect it will work for elliptical orbits, if you treat either body as always being at the center of the ellipse for the purpose of calculating its semimajor axis, which you then use for r. -- John Owens